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If you love poetry that heals the soul, Charles C. Finn's most recent collection is for you These poems may have special appeal to those who recognize themselves to be on a spirit journey. These "blue plums" are to be taken slowly, and not necessarily chronologically. One may choose a more intuitive or spontaneous approach and glance through the Table of Contents and be lured by an inviting title. In either case, for those curious as to what...

Few things go deeper than relationships with parents, or are more complex. And as children become adults and their parents move inexorably towards decline and death, the complexity only deepens even as a primordial simplicity reemerges. While the reflections in these poems are of course personal, they touch on things universal. Many besides me have struggled with ambivalence towards their parents, and all of us, unless the natural order is rev...

The worlds of counseling and sports have things vital in common. Both are arenas for facing and overcoming adversity, for going beyond the limits of ordinary experience, for transcending. In sports it is easy to see. Beyond cheering on our favorite player or team, what we secretly hope and watch for is this potential at any moment for transcendence. Even if it's but one superlative play, one dazzling move in the entire game, our watchful spiri...

Addiction of one kind or another touches us all. Given its destructive course, it would seem an unequivocal curse to be lamented. The thrust of The Elixir of Air, however, is that it need not be. Addiction can in fact be a hidden blessing for what it forces us to face and change in our lives, for the spirit journey it rudely launches us on. Which is not to glamorize the searing pain experienced by addicts and their loved ones. Addiction''s gat...

Exacting, exasperating, exhausting, rich, awe-inspiring, transforming-all are accurate partial descriptions of the high calling of parenthood, a calling from the Universe to marvel before its evolution reenacted, a calling from the Earth to nurture and embolden the children she entrusts, calls eliciting from parents all the intelligence, heart, imagination and spirit they can muster that they might mold nothing less than the future. Deep Joy, ...

The crisis facing not only humankind but the very planet is of such a magnitude that we need avail ourselves of all the accumulated wisdom possible-which necessarily includes the wisdom of Jesus of Nazareth-or else literally perish. Earth Brother Jesus is indeed about salvation, but salvation of the entire Earth community, and it is indeed about the potential magnificent role Jesus can play in this salvation, but a dramatically different Jesus...

Fuel for Ware hopes to help break a spell, an Earth-imperiling entrancement that weaves together patriotism, nationalism, and war. That its hold on Americans is particularly fierce is grimly demonstrated yet again in the recent Gulf Wars. Until we collectively awaken from this spell and begin espousing a broader patriotism, elicited by the stupendous image from the moon of the living jewel of a single family on a fragile planet, peace will be ...

Just what is poetry, and who writes it, and why do they write it, and did they always write it or is it something that develops gradually, and how do they go about it, and what are some of the frustrations, and if the frustrations are great what even greater rewards are sufficient to keep spurring them on, and who are they writing for, and where do their ideas come from, and what influence do other poets and writers have on them, and, after re...

Standing at that magical place where sand meets sea, you likely have imagined putting a message in a bottle, consigning it to the waves, hoping it might some day reach another shore, and then not only be read but, incredibly across space and time, make a difference in other lives now connected to your own. It has happened to me, and I must sing of it.In the autumn of 1966 I let the waves carry off a poem-passed around to students, family and f...

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Pondering the immensity of our bond with Earth carries us beyond Faith I-low love a wave apart from the ocean waving? Only in the context of the story of the Universe is Earth intelligible, so whatever love we feel for her extends naturally to the Universe as a whole, and to the magical dynamic conceiving and unfolding it across literally billions of years. The year-by-year blossoming of a human child that so rightly astounds and delights us m...

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Memento mori, " intoned the ancients. But why remember death, why keep the thought of death before us? Is not the goal to live, in effect to fight death, to stave off as long as we can the wrinkles and the gray? "Think positive, " intones our culture. "Look on the bright side. Granted death will claim us in the end, it doesn't have to cheat us out of life in the meantime." "On the contrary, " Death counters. "If you let me, I can serve you as ...

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While the odyssey traced in Ithaca Is The Journey is highly personal, its central insight relates to the odyssey of all. Spiritual journeyers are invited by these pages to remember the great secret: the Promised Land they are yearning for is somehow the very ground upon which they stand, the haven they hope to find at their journey's end is, as sages have long mysteriously suggested, no where other than at hand. The paradox of life thus has it...

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Slavery and the Civil War-what is the connection, and does it matter? From the view point of the book in your hands, the connection is absolute and it matters greatly. Steppingstones to the Civil War invites readers to revisit American history, especially those believing that the devastation costing 600, 000 lives (think on that figure) and shaking to the foundations the American experiment was at root about states' rights, economy and Norther...

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